CT 3500
Computed Tomography Scanner
CT 3500
Computed Tomography Scanner
CT 3500 lets you expand your clinical capabilities with a CT system that you can count on for performance and productivity day after day even in demanding, high-volume care settings. Advances driven by AI-enabled¹ workflow are designed to help meet the challenges of increased financial pressures, chronic staff shortages and escalating patient demand. The system allows for continuous lung screening scanning with no cooling time for up to 240 patients in 8 hours. Clinical breadth and a high-performance vMRC tube allows 200-300 patient exams per day, with high operational efficiency and fast workflow.¹
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Features
Precise Position for needed consistency
Uses an AI-enabled camera to automatically determine patient orientation, improving positioning accuracy by up to 50% while reducing patient positioning time by up to 23% and increasing consistency from user to user by up to 70%.* Inaccurate patient positioning is a common and documented challenge in CT imaging, which can lead to unwanted consequences such as increased patient dose and image noise.⁴
vMRC tube supports high uptime
The vMRC tube is made and rigorously tested at the Philips Innovation and Manufacturing Center of Excellence in Hamburg, Germany.Designed for reliability and high uptime, the vMRC tube offers 50% longer tube life compared to a traditional X-ray tube. The spiral-groove bearing design, direct cooling of the anode and wear-free bearing help improve uptime. The slotted anode relieves unprecedented stress from rapid heating and cooling cycles. The vMRC Smart Card constantly measures critical tube performance metrics to increase tube uptime.
Precise Intervention enhances workflow and confidence
Needle guidance enhances workflow for interventional CT procedures. Automatically calculate depth, angle, tip-to-target, and deviation from plan, enhancing the speed and efficiency necessary for quick and confident procedures. In addition to Precise Intervention, OnPlan patient-side gantry controls supports in-room interventional workflow and provides workflow flexibility to the interventional radiologist.
Specifications
- CT 3500
- X-ray tube Anode heat capacity
- 8.0 MHU
- Generator Power
- 55 kW
- Slices
- Up to 64
- Coverage
- 20 mm
- Rotation speed
- Up to 0.5 s
- Bore size
- 720 mm
- Reconstruction speed
- Max speed ≥ 55 images with enhanced console
- kVp stations
- 70, 80, 100, 120, 140
Disclaimer
Results from case studies are not predictive of results in other cases. Results in other cases may vary.
*Based on Philips in-house assessment by five clinical experts, comparing manual versus Precise Positioning in 40 clinical cases using a human body phantom.
**Data collected across Philips CT scanners using Remote Services; numbers will be updated on a rolling basis when more CT 3500 data is available.
1. According to the definition of AI from the EU High-Level Expert Group.
2. In clinical practice, the use of Precise Image may reduce CT patient dose depending on the clinical task, patient size, and anatomical location. A consultation with a radiologist and a physicist should be made to determine the appropriate dose to obtain diagnostic image quality for the particular clinical task. Dose reduction assessments were performed using reference body protocols with 1.0 mm slices at the “Smoother” setting of Precise Image, and tested on the MITA CT IQ Phantom (CCT189, The Phantom Laboratory) assessing the 10 mm pin and compared to filtered-back projection. A range is seen across the 4 pins, using a channelized hoteling observer tool, that includes lower image noise by 85% and improved low-contrast detectability from 0% to 60% at 50% to 80% dose reduction. NPS curve shift is used to evaluate image appearance, as measured on a 20 cm water phantom in the center 50 mm x 50 mm region of interest, with an average shift of 6% or less.
3. Precise Image is currently not available for pediatrics.
4. Toth T, Ge Z, Daly MP. The influence of patient centering on CT dose and image noise. Med Phys. 2007;34(7):3093-3101. doi.org/10.1118/1.2748113
5. Quantitative Report 2020 Incisive CT. The MarketTech Group. November 2020.